Word: annan
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...recently scored high in the race for celebrity commencement speakers. The list includes United Nations Secretary General Kofi A. Annan last June, Vice President Al Gore '69 in 1996, Harvard Corporation member Hanna H. Gray in 1995 and The Aga Kahn...
...Leonardo DiCaprio is a U.N. election monitor with Minnie Driver as a Bosnian widow... Don't laugh -- Kofi Annan was taking meetings in Hollywood today, pitching ideas and trying to enlist the movie industry's support in improving America's understanding of the U.N. Besides seeking star power to back U.N. initiatives, Annan also wants to get producers interested in making a movie about U.N. workers in the world's trouble spots. Like the Dalai Lama, Annan has sensed that the battle for Washington may be won or lost in Tinseltown. "To get the kind of support it needs...
There is nothing that you or I or Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan can do about the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in Rwanda and Bosnia. But at least the need for justice has been recognized--not just to salve our consciences and salvage our credibility, but to help reconcile the people who must deal with the aftermath of these tragedies and to prevent the past from a vengeful return. It is, after all that we did not do, the least that can be done...
...intrigued by your article on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan [WORLD, March 9]. In most south Indian dialects, annan means elder brother, someone who is older and definitely wiser. A vintage meaning, perhaps, but it is a deserved honorific for one who stands taller and sees farther than most of us. In these days of shortsighted one-upmanship, it is comforting to know we have such annans to care for us. May I take the liberty of calling the U.N. leader annan just once with the flavor of meaning of my mother tongue? UNNIKRISHNAN K. PANICKAR Kerala, India...
...stands to profit most from the expansion of the Oil for Food program the U.N. put into place just before KOFI ANNAN went to Baghdad? The new plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But SADDAM HUSSEIN realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves, into...